Here is one of my concept art studies for the novel. This is the Warlord. He is a Xxo. Xxo, for those of you who care about such things, is pronounced to rhyme with Joe or show, but begins with a sound similar to the Chinese ‘Zh’ sound. Just place your tongue on the roof of your mouth as if you were going to say ‘Joe’. Now vibrate the tip of your tongue right up against your front top teeth, and then finish saying ‘Joe’. That was easy enough, right? (This isn’t the way the Xxos pronounce it, exactly, but it is as close as a human is ever going to get.)
Why is a being with the forbidding title of Warlord washing dishes in a Western saloon in space? I guess you will just have to wait and see…
Pouring My Art Out 
Looks good.
exceedingly cool. like a cross between an ent and yog-sothoth.
Exactly.
For what?!!!!!! Oh my god, I spit my drink out! Edward Hotspur, you are hysterical.
I thought broccoli, too. But now I don’t know what to think! Or, I do, but don’t want to.
It isn’t really any kind of veggetable… sort of… it is an alien… that may or may not be a species of plant-based life.
It’s like celery tipped with string beans at both ends, and peas around the middle.
I’m gonna go have a snack.
I used broccoli…
For what?
Oh, stop it.